Every artist or photographer has a passion for a subject. For a certain style. Maybe this changes in periods or over time, but it isn’t absent. There is always something that keeps them going.

Without a passion, the photographer loses interest in photography after some time. It doesn’t make sense to take photographs if you do not have any interest in what you capture.

A painter without an interest in exploring and understanding their drive will slowly lose their creativity and maybe stop doing what fascinated them at the start. Keep exploring, whatever your subjects may be, is the drive that will keep your interest in photography and your joy of photography.

It is important to carry a camera and seek opportunities, and sometimes just take pictures of daily life. Training your mind and looking for pictures is important to keep the spirit and love for photography alive. 

It doesn’t have to be masterpieces, all of it. Famous photographers able to publish books of their works have taken thousands of photos with little interest, and then there are those photographs that stand out. It doesn’t come from nothing. It’s all down to hard, consistent work. 

The camera and the lenses

Finding joy is done by photographing what you like. Use a camera you like. For me, the Leica M9 and the simplicity of this tool are an inspiration in themselves, but it may be a different camera for you.
For my vintage Nikkor lenses, I use the Sony A7R system because I need an EVF finder to set the focus.

Using these cameras and lenses allows me to play around with different expressions and ways to see the world with my camera.

What drives you?

What drives you to take pictures? Is it for Instagram or Facebook? For prints to hang up on a wall? Family photos for your album and keeping them as memories?

It doesn’t matter that much. What matters is how you do them. The expression and style. Black and white or colours. 

I bring my camera around because I see the world in a frame. I enjoy watching people and scenery and framing the scene, excluding other parts, and focusing on a story or a feeling. If we watch everything around us, it doesn’t bring us closer to understanding or experiencing life. Narrowing the focus on specific things, colours, shapes, and a fragment of time makes the story clearer.

As a photographer, I consider it important that the camera is part of my life and that creating pictures is a way of life.

Use your camera

The purpose can be one or the other, but most important is to enjoy doing it. I enjoy bringing my camera to any place on any occasion. Photographing daily simple situations can change the view it. It may take a picture of a coffee cup in the morning, changing this daily routine into poetry. Photography can be very simple, and simplicity can be very beautiful.

People have always drawn my attention. The frozen moment in a situation can raise a question, and it puzzles you what they think about. One second, the scene is interesting. The next it is gone. In street photography, timing is everything.

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